A microbial X-factor with Charles Darwin chairing the judges
Antibiotics have revolutionised modern medicine. But bacteria are fighting back. And the need to find new drugs is urgent, warns the World Health Organisation.
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A mother and son, who face execution in North Korea, say they fled the country because they were always hungry.
As the heads of Pfizer and AstraZeneca appear in front of MPs, Professor Ray Hill argues that the UK economy, science base and skills have all benefited from AstraZeneca’s work.
A local trader who survived an attack this week by Boko Haram insurgents on a remote town in Nigeria, in which more than 300 may have died, tells Channel 4 News it was followed by mass burials.
Antibiotics have revolutionised modern medicine. But bacteria are fighting back. And the need to find new drugs is urgent, warns the World Health Organisation.
A new death penalty cocktail is being blamed for botching the execution of a US inmate in Oklahoma – but why is the US executing their criminals with new chemicals?
After teacher Ann Maguire was stabbed in a school in Leeds on Monday, the clamour has begun for safer schools to stop the tragedy ever happening again – but experts warn against knee-jerk responses.
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Police identify 11 new potential suspects connected to historic claims of child sex abuse at a children’s care home in Rochdale linked to the late Sir Cyril Smith.
The £60bn takeover of AstraZeneca by US giant Pfizer would be one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical deals. But it would also impact everything from the drugs we use, to the jobs we do.
It’s a familiar, if sad, story. The NHS says a new breast cancer drug is too costly; doctors, patients and the manufacturer say you can’t put a value on life. But the NHS drug watchdog says it has to.
Tens of thousands of US troops are withdrawing from Afghanistan, but many are finding their return home is less than heroic, and the substantial number of veterans facing homelessness is on the rise.
Channel 4 News has learned that the NHS has agreed to the fast track funding of a new drug for 500 patients with severe hepatitis C.
Former City minister Lord Myners, who has been driving reform of the embattled Co-operative Group, quits the company’s board.
Oscar Pistorius tells a South African court that he never wants to handle a firearm again and he suffers from nightmares, as he takes the stand in his trial for the alleged murder of Reeva Steenkamp.
Thousands of girls and young women trapped in gangs are living “desperate lives” in which rape is considered normal, a new report warns.